blu ray writers

[AeR0]

i was wondering if someone could tell me if i buy a blu ray writer am i able to copy blu ray to blu ray?

[redwudz]

Not exactly. The Blu-ray would have to be small enough to fit on the BD RW disc, about 25GB for a single layer. That is sometimes the case if you only use the main movie and not much else. If not, you would have to re-encode it, which can take quite a while. Two common tools used are RipBot and BD Rebuilder.

Of course, before you can do any of this, you will have to decrypt the disc. That may add another $80US or so to the costs, depending on what program you use. I use AnyDVD HD.

I convert mine for easy playback on my computer with RipBot to MKV, about 8GB filesize. I don't have a stand alone BD player. It takes me about 6 hours to re-encode to MKV using a four core CPU running at 3.3Ghz.

[AeR0]

how big is a movie that i buy on blu ray? and how big is a ps3 game? (sorry for the newb questions)


cant i buy BD the same size??

[redwudz]

I have two ripped BDs on my HDD, one is 17GB and the other is 34GB. The ~30GB size is more common. Even with that one the main movie is 27GB, so it wouldn't fit on a single layer BD. You can get double layer BDs but they cost quite a bit more. You just need to get used to processing them to a smaller size. BD Rebuilder is fairly fast. At least faster than converting them to MKV with RipBot.

I don't know about PS3 games.

EDIT: Single layer BDs are ~$6US each. Dual layer (50GB) is ~$20US.

[fjmr]

And what about to use DVD FAB HD DECRYPTER version6 taking in account BD size of course!
8)

[fjmr]

Take a look on this!! DVD FAB!!

A. Blu-ray to Blu-ray

1. 4 Blu-ray to Blu-ray copy modes available: Full Disc, Main Movie, Clone and Write Data.
2. Full Disc: All movies, menus and trailers, is copied to a Blu-ray with just one click.
3. Main Movie: Just copy the movie, with specific audio/subpicture.
4. Clone: Make perfect 1:1 bit-to-bit copy of Blu-ray.
5. Write Data: Burn existing Blu-ray folder or ISO image file to Blu-ray writer, or convert Blu-ray folder to ISO image file.
6. Compress BD-50 to BD-25/BD-9/BD-5. (coming soon)
7. Very fast copying speed.
8. Burn to any blank Blu-ray Disc (BD-R 25, BD-RE 25, BD-R 50, BD-RE 50).
9. Constantly updated to support latest Blu-ray burners and blank Blu-ray discs.

:P

[drjtech]

6. Compress BD-50 to BD-25/BD-9/BD-5. (coming soon)

I'm looking forward to this feature. No word yet on how soon "soon" is.

-drjtech